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Eastern Europe

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Space Race

Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin
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Gagarin, Yuri Alekseyevich

1934- 1968
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Yuri Gagarin & the First Human Space Flight

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Rudnev, K. N.

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Bakulev, A. N. (Aleksandr Nikolaevich)

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Ustinov, Dimitri F.

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Keldysh, M. V. (Mstislav Vsevolodovich)

1911- 1978
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Khrunichev, M

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March 24, 1961

Report from D. Ustinov et al to the CPSU CC on Preparations to Launch the Vostok-3A

Report to Central Committee from industrial leaders, military leaders, scientists, and designers on preparations to launch a final automated test flight before actual piloted spaceflight.

December 2, 1958

Letter, M. Khrunichev et al to the CPSU CC

Proposal submitted to the Central Committee (CC) by a number of industry leaders, scientists, and military officials proposing to strengthen biomedical research to support a future human spaceflight.

June 26, 1958

Letter, A. Bakulev et al. to Comrade N.S. Khrushchev

Proposal from biomedicine specialists addressed to Nikita Khrushchev to create a new scientific-research institution dedicated solely to study the biomedical aspects of space exploration. The authors ask that a unit from the Air Force’s existing Institute of Aviation Medicine be detached and made into a new institute for space medicine.

July 4, 1956

Note of Academician I. P. Bardin to N. S. Khrushchev about the Position of Soviet Representatives at a Conference of the Special Committee for the International Geophysical Year

What Soviet scientists could reveal about Soviet plans when traveling abroad